Posted on 03/02/2024 4:04:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
The deep-rooted corruption of the Biden administration has already reached new and frightening lows this year when the Department of Justice shockingly convicted six pro-life activists—who now face up to 11 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines—for doing nothing more than peacefully singing hymns and praying in the hallway outside a Nashville abortion clinic.
The Biden administration’s record of anti-Christian persecution has garnered increasing attention from Republican leaders, and the conviction of the Nashville activists reveals the chilling extent to which the left is willing to weaponize the law to silence, intimidate, and ultimately imprison Christians, pro-life Americans, and other citizens who oppose the Democrat Party’s extreme views on social and cultural issues.
At the end of January, Chester Gallagher, Paul Vaughn, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, and Dennis Green were found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and of “conspiracy against rights,” both of which are felony charges. The Biden DOJ accused the activists of “force and physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with employees of the clinic and a patient who was seeking reproductive health services.”
But since-released video footage of the protest, which occurred in March 2021, tells a vastly different story. Rather than seeking to “injure” or “intimidate” expectant mothers, the activists were simply sitting in the abortion clinic hallway singing Christian songs without any discernible intention of threatening or causing harm to any women.
As many conservative analysts and legal scholars have argued, an honest reading of the FACE Act would preclude such severe prosecution of the Nashville protestors. As a recent Washington Examiner editorial notes, the FACE Act “prohibits intimidation and the use of force that is used to interfere with access to abortion clinics.” It does not, however “prohibit nonintrusive protest or supersede activists’ free speech rights.”
As such, the editorial continues, it is difficult to reach any conclusion other than that the Biden DOJ was eager to target pro-life American in violation of their First Amendment rights.
The Biden administration has notably pursued no comparable charges against the individuals responsible for vandalizing pro-life pregnancy centers and churches in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs decision. While the FACE Act is supposed to protect abortion clinics and pro-life clinics equally, in practice it has only been used to against pro-lifers.
The conviction of the Nashville protesters is not the only instance of Biden’s abuse of the FACE Act. In the fall of 2022, the FBI sent a team of armed agents to raid the home of Mark Houck, a Catholic pro-life activist and father of seven. Houck was arrested and charged with violating the FACE Act stemming from an incident outside an abortion center.
As video evidence showed, Houck was praying the rosary outside a clinic with his son when a pro-abortion activist approached and verbally harassed them. Houck described how the abortion activist hurled expletive-laced insults at his son, which prompted Houck to shove him to the ground.
For this act, Houck faced 11 years in prison and a $350,000 fine—a sentence slammed by conservatives and religious freedom advocates as further evidence of the Biden administration’s targeting of Christians.
“The Biden administration has filed two brazenly defective and discriminatory charges against Mark Houck under the FACE Act,” said Mark Breen, a lawyer from the conservative Thomas More Society. “This case is being brought solely to intimidate people of faith and pro-life Americans.” Even a U.S. district judge noted that the FACE Act seemed to “be stretched a little thin” in the case of Houck.
Though Houck was ultimately acquitted by a Pennsylvania jury in January of last year, the Biden administration has sent the clear message to pro-life Americans that they are not safe to freely express their views.
Since Biden took office, the DOJ has also deployed FBI agents to target patriotic parents objecting to far-left content in their school curriculums, sent agents to Catholic parishes to root out alleged “extremist” threats (defined as “traditional” Catholics), and refused to invoke the FACE Act or take any concrete action to stop the onslaught of violent attacks against crisis pregnancy centers, Catholic parishes, and Christian churches.
Meanwhile, left-wing protestors are openly defiling the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives, blocking major highways in support of Hamas-controlled Gaza, illegally invading state legislative chambers, and holding “die-ins” at DMV offices—yet they all do so confident that they will never face anything close to the charges now being levied against the Nashville pro-life activists.
Is it any wonder that Christians and conservatives have lost confidence in the Biden DOJ’s willingness to enforce the law impartially, without fear or favor?
“You wouldn’t be here if the Trump administration was in the White House,” Mark Houck recalled saying to the multitude of agents who stormed his home. As these attacks continue to escalate, Christians’ best hope may be for Trump to return to the executive mansion.
Innocent people are persecuted, but ANTIFA and BLM get hardly a sideways glance.
What this country needs is a distraction so that we don’t notice that we have lost our Freedoms. Maybe a big war. Or disease X. Both?
O'Biden's time in this world is short. He may escape justice in this world, but he will face it in the next..
What we need is divine intervention to rid this country of the Devil’s disciples.
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On the left: an illegal alien gesturing obscenely;part of a violent mob on tape
viciously attacking a NYPD officer; got off scott free, released without bail.
On the right, a father of 11, convicted in federal court
of praying at an abortion mill faces 11 years in jail.
Let’s be upset as a nation over the death of some Nazi White Power trash over in a Russian prison instead…
The arrest of the J6 reporter, the imprisonment, without trial, of J6 defendents and the arrest of peaceful abortion protestors. And then there is the barefooted pregnant woman the FBI made stand outside the home they were raiding for hours in 12 degree temperatures.
I don’t care if you hate orange man or not, this should scare the daylights out of every single American. The government is now tyrannical as our forefathers warned. The government is out of control and getting worse by the day.
That’s correct. There’s a war going on against Christians / conservatives.
Antifa/ BLM are government created and sanctioned obamian agencies bent on the destruction of America’s social fabric.
Hear, hear!
“war on women” - Newsom
“reproductive freedom” - Whitmer
“recreational sex” - Alexandria Ortega-Cortez (AOC)
Killing babies - Truth
ANTIFA and BLM are the Democratic Party.
The symbol of the democrat voters they voted for the mess we’re in now.
Oh, you mean Biden’s “newcomer?”.....snx
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On noon, January 20, 2025 I pray, GOD willing, that Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office and one of his first acts is to grant FULL PARDONS to the political prisoners - this father and the January 6th protesters!
However, in reality they'll be false flag crimes created by the same and now well-seasoned "most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics" that will provide the more professional but fraudulent Biclen-voted ballots. The courts will be instructed to deal with the sloppy ballots with extreme prejudice, and Big Ink will have new fodder to talk of how despicable and vile the MAGA movement is.
The OurDemocracy regime could even arrange it so Trump squeaks by with a one electoral vote win on election night, then rev up their riot machine (either Antifa or their new million man army from prisons south of the border) to provide a bit of persuasion for the courts to reverse the fleeting MAGA victory.
Can anyone say "color revolution"?
/tin foil
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